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The Rise of Anti-Regulatory Legal Advocacy: The Farm Bureau Case Study

This case study of the American Farm Bureau Federation uncovers how corporate financial power, filtered through a nonprofit shell, is fundamentally redirecting natural resource policy and the future of federal administrative authority. (read more)

An Abundance of Risk: Federal Under-Regulation of Carbon Capture

This Article discusses the unique set of near- and long-term risks for local communities and broader climate goals presented by carbon capture use and storage infrastructure, which demands more regulation—and less abundance. (read more)

Worker and Community Strong: Labor and Community Tools for New Mexico’s Clean Energy Sector

This Article explores how New Mexico—and similarly situated states—can build a clean energy industry that offers strong worker protections, livable wages, and robust benefits for clean energy workers and the communities near those projects. (read more)

Life Cycles and Loopholes

This Article aims to better understand how to address biofuel greenhouse gas accounting shortfalls at the subnational level. (read more)

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Stopping the Conversation: Amended ESA Section 7 Regulations Put Species At Risk

ELQ Journal

January 22nd 2009

Eric Biber and Cynthia Drew * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the primary legal tool in the United States for the protection of biodiversity. Since its enactment in 1973, it has played a central role in efforts to halt the decline ...

The First One Hundred Days: Ten Things President-Elect Obama Should Do to Confront the Climate Crisis

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December 21st 2008

Patrick Parenteau * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] In a recent speech, former Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore challenged the nation to produce 100 percent of its electricity from non-carbon sources within ten years.[1] Linking the issues of climate, energy, economy and national security, Mr. ...

Trains Deliver the Goods

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December 8th 2008

Lawrence B. Landman * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] Trucks Pollute, Trains Don’t Trains carry goods 94 percent more efficiently than do trucks. California should therefore encourage firms to ship goods on trains, not trucks. Yet the California Air Resources Board (CARB), in its draft Scoping Plan, ignores ...

Land Use and Climate Change: Is it Time for a National Land Use Policy?

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November 24th 2008

Catherine J. LaCroix * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] The immediate and short answer to the question in the title is no. It will never be time for an articulated federal land use policy; the tradition of local control of land use is simply too strong. But ...

China’s Environment After the Olympics

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October 30th 2008

Lo Sze Ping * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] I. Introduction China’s economy is the fastest growing in the world. Official Chinese government figures, from the National Bureau of Statistics, indicate that China’s economy grew 11.9 percent in 2007, the fastest rate of growth in more than ...

Building Energy Efficiency in China

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October 30th 2008

Ruidong Jin and Fan Rui * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] I. Yesterday: Was Building Energy Efficiency Needed in China? This was the question asked by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) when we first entered China early in 1998. To our surprise, we found few people interested ...

Enhancing China’s Environmental Governance: Challenges and Opportunities

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October 30th 2008

Fuqiang Yang and Min Hu * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] Introduction China’s economic and social development has had severe environmental impacts: from land and water resource deterioration to becoming the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, pollution has resulted in total losses equivalent to 3.05 percent of ...

California & the Future of Environmental Law & Policy

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September 15th 2008

Richard M. Frank * [ jump to end/comments ][ download PDF ] Earlier this year, the U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CCELP) sponsored and hosted a major conference, “California & the Future of Environmental Law & Policy.”[1] The purpose of this successful event, ...

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